Apparatus for molding reinforced concrete building slabs, columns and girders



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APPARATUS FOR MOLDING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDING SLABS, COLUMNS AND GIRDERS 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed May 3. 1957 INVENTOR. @4.5527' /.s/voeesol/ f? TTM United ,Sti-.etes Pat-6.11110 APPARATUS FOR `MoLDrNG VREINFORCED `CONCRETE BUILDING sLAs, COLUMNS AND GIRDnRs f Albert Henderson, Pittsburgh, Pa.- Application May s, 195.7, seria'No. 656,861

9 claims. (cd1. z5`1z1) ing patent application Ser. No. 545,891, led `November 9, 1955, and the idea of making concrete building units and frames of various shapes in the'same molds that mold the legs kof the channel ordouble T .floor or roof slabs is disclosed in connection with Figures 1,-to` 16 of my co-pending application Ser. No. 470,674,65led November 23, '1954, now abandoned. The arrangement there shown and here `shown permits reinforcing steel in cage form to` be standardized for'the concrete columns, girders, beams and legs of the oor and ,roof slabs.

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2' Y li or mold bottoms 7, in opposition to braces 18.7that have clamping screws 19 adjustable .vertically on the braces,

the braces being bolted at 20 to the beams 2. A- plate 22 (Fig. 2), serves as a vertical mold wall at eachend of the group of molds 4 and is suitably supported by a beam 23 and braces 24. Angles `25 serveas mold walls for the edges of a concrete slab 26. A ller plate 27 is employed to bridge the space between the inner molds 4. Bolts 28 carried by the plate 27 extend loosely through the slots in the upper ends of the moldboxes 4 so as to permit adjustment of the two adjacentmold boxes toward` and from one another. hold the plate 27 against being pulled away from the mold.

' mold lby suction, when the slab is Ybeing lifted froml the It will also Vbe understood that when a simple slab is to be formed, instead of a slabwith integrally formed beams or girders as inFig. l, bridging plates such as 27 will ybe placed over the mold cavities, or the pallets will be raised to the same plane as the tops of the Y molds 4 and thus serve as mold bottom members. The

Figure 1 is a vertical section view through4 mold apj paratus that embodies my invention.

Fig. 2 is a partial plan view thereof. i Fig. 3 shows a modification of the apparatus of Fig. 1. Figure 4` is a side view of the structure of Fig. 3. y

.Referring rst to Figure 1, the molding apparatus is shown as .supported on steel I-beams 2 that serve as track-ways for trucks 3 upon which the mold4 sidewalls 4 aresupported. These molds 4 may suitably. be perhaps 60 feet in length, in directions transversely of the beams 2, and there will perhaps be five rows of trucks 3 positioned on ve pairs of tracks 2 (Fig. 4), for supporting each mold member 4. The molds 4 are all suitably of box-like form and steam may be introduced therein in order the facilitate or hasten the hardening of the molded concrete. Hand holes 5 are provided in the upper and lower ends of the box-like mold members for access to bolts that extend through the side or top walls of the molds. The walls 4 are vertically adjustable on the trucks 3 by bolts 6.

Pallets 7 serve as mold bottoms and are supported on vertical bars 8 which are in turn supported upon the beams 2 by bolts 9 that extend through holes in the uprights 8. The Aspacing of the holes in the uprights may suitably be 2 inches contento-center, to provide for graduated vertical adjustments of the mold bottoms 7.

The mold members 4 are laterally braced by clamping members 11 and 12. The clamping devices 11 each comprises a vertical bar 13 and a horizontal bar 14 that are rigidly secured together in right angular relationship. Each bar 13 is vertically supported by a bolt 15 on a rail 2 and the leg 14 of the angle is bolted at 16 to the beam- 2. The angles 13-14 are adjustably positioned longitudinally of the rails 2 by insertion of the Screws 17v bolts 16 through desired ones of the holes. are threaded through holes in the angles 13, at adjustable heights, to clamp 'the mold side walls against the pallets integrally-formed beam portions 29 of the casting will be` ot a depthor vertical dimension dependent upon the plane to which the pallets 7 .are adjusted, andvwill4 be of a thickness determined by the positions of the trucks 3 and such minor adjustments as may be eiectediby the clamping screws 17 vand 19.

The slab 26 is extended beyond the two vlegs of the casting, to the edge mold members 25,. thus forming cantilever extensions beyond the legs of the slab, and

enabling a. thinner section of web to be used.-

Referring now to- Figures 3 andx4, I show a structure similar to that .ofV Fig. 1, but wherein` the mold members of Fig. lare utilized in the casting'of beams and girders of other shapes. Suitable core members such as 31 and 32 are provided forforming I-beams33 and Z-beams 34, it being understood of course, that Cores of, other contours could be placed against the moldl sid`ewalls 4, and` extend .either lfor part length or full length of` the beam mold cavity.- The cores 31 and 32 are vertically adjustable'to desiredheights and the pallet.-

like mold bottoms 7 are likewise supported for vertical adjustment. The pallets or mold bottoms 7 may;` be of v'various widths from4 yinches to24 inches, for example and, of course, the mold side walls will be held tightly against the edges of the mold bottoms when the concrete is being poured. In making the shapes shown in Fig. 3, the pouring of the concrete ceases when it completely ills the cavity between the mold side walls instead of pouring being continued to form a oor or slab as in Fig. l1.

Another variation in Fig. 3 from that shown in Fig. 1 results from the provision of additional trucks '36 that roll along the bottom flanges of the I beams 2. The vertical bars 8 that support the pallets 7 are in turn supported upon the trucks 36 by bolts 37. By this arrangement, the whole apparatus can readily be shifted longitudinally of the beams 2. y

The holesv in the mold side walls through which the core-holding bolts 38 and 39 extend can be plugged or coveredwith tape when no cores are being used. Also, the reinforcement steel, both in the case of Fig. l and Fig. 3, will be made in the form of cages after the manner shown in my co-pending application Ser. No.` 470,674, filed November 23, 1954, and placed in the mold cavities previous to pouring of the concrete.

I claim as my invention:

1. Apparatus for forming concrete building members of elongated form, that comprises pairs of mold sides 4which have longitudinally-extending cores, separately- Also, vthe bolts mold sides, trackways'disposed in a horizontal plane below the mold bottoms and sides and extending transversely of the mold cavities, rows of trucks movable along the trackways, below the mold sides, with each row supporting one of said mold sides at various points along the bottom face of the side and movable independently of the other rows, and rows of uprights mounted on the trackways and at their upper ends supporting the mold bottoms, there being a row of these uprights which support each mold bottom at various points longitudinally of the bottom.

2. Apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein clamping means are provided on the trackways for clamping the mold sides against the edges of the mold bottoms.

` 3. Apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein means are provided on the mold-side trucks, for plumbing the mold sides.

4. Apparatus for forming' concrete building members of elongated form, that comprises a pair of vertical inold sides which are provided on their inner faces with cores that extend longitudinally of the sides, a separatelyformed mold bottom between said sides, to form a mold cavity that is upwardly exposed, a plurality of laterallyspaced trackways disposed in a horizontal plane below the mold bottom and sides and extending transversely ofthe mold cavity, parallel rows of trucks on the trackways, below the side walls, each row supporting a side 'wall at various points along the bottom faces of the side wall, and uprights mounted on the trackway, which at their upper ends support the mold bottom, there being a row of these uprights between the two rows of trucks, the trucks-of each row being movable relatively to the trucks of the other row, to move the mold sides laterally from the mold bottom.

5. Apparatus as recited in claim 4, wherein the uprights aresupported -on trucks carried by the trackway.

6. Apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein the lastnamed trucks are supported by the trackway at a plane belowv the first-named trucks.

7. Apparatus for molding concrete building units each of which has a web integrally cast to spaced, oppositelydisposed anges', the apparatus comprising relativelyspaced 'pairs'` of vertical mold sides between which the anges are respectively formed, a horizontal web-forming cavity above the said sides into which the ange-forming cavities are upwardly -exposed, mold bottoms bridging-the`spaces between the mold sides of said pairs, track- Waysdisposed in a horizontal plane below and transversely of the mold bottoms and the flange-forming cavi ties, rows of trucks movable along the trackways, they various rows serving to support vertical mold sides at various points longitudinally of the sides and each row of trucks being movable along the tracks independently, of the other rows, and rows of uprights extending upwardly from the tracks, with their upper ends supporting the said mold bottoms, each row of uprights supporting one of the said mold bottoms, at various points longitudinally thereof.

8. Apparatus as recited in claim 7, wherein there is a removable mold-bottom web-forming plate that bridges the space between two relatively-spaced pairs of vertical mold sides at their upper edges.

9. Apparatus for molding building units of concrete, comprising a pair of vertical mold sides that are spaced .apart to form a horizontally-elongated vertical mold cavity, that is open at its upper edge, horizontally-spaced mold side members adjacent to said upper edge and spaced aparta greater distance than the lower portions of'said vertical' sides, the spaces between the upper and lower mold sides being open to each other and forming a continuous mold cavity, a mold bottom bridging the space between the said vertical mold sides at their lower edges, trackways disposed in a horizontal plane below and transversely of the mold bottoms and the said cavities, rows of trucks movable along the trackways, each row ser-ving to support a vertical mold side at various points longitudinally of its-lower edge and each row of trucks being movable along the tracks independently of the other row, and a row of uprights extending upwardly from the tracks, with their upper ends supporting the said mold bottom at various points longitudinally of the bottom.

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